ICE Extensions for TCP

Status: MMUSIC Working Group item, -03
Date of last update: March 5, 2007
Authors: J. Rosenberg
Current Document: draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-03.txt
Summary: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) defines a mechanism for NAT traversal for multimedia communication protocols based on the offer/answer model of session negotiation. ICE works by providing a set of candidate transport addresses for each media stream, which are then validated with peer-to-peer connectivity checks based on Simple Traversal of UDP over NAT (STUN). ICE provides a general framework for describing alternates, but only defines UDP-based transport protocols. This specification extends ICE to TCP-based media, including the ability to offer a mix of TCP and UDP-based candidates for a single stream.
Archive of older drafts:
  1. draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-02 [.txt], October 23, 2006
  2. draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-01 [.txt], June 26, 2006
  3. draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-00 [.txt], February 27, 2006
  4. draft-rosenberg-mmusic-ice-tcp-00 [.txt], October 17, 2005

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